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Half-Hour Lectures on the History and Practice of the Fine and Ornamental Arts by William B. Scott. Published as a 3rd edition in 1884. With 50 illustrations engraved by W.J. Linton. William Bell Scott (1811-1890) was a Scottish artist in oils and watercolour and occasionally printmaking. He was also a poet and art teacher, and his posthumously published reminiscences give a chatty and often vivid picture of life in the circle of the Pre-Raphaelites; he was especially close to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. After growing up in Edinburgh, he moved to London, and from 1843 to 1864 was principal of the government School of Art in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he added industrial subjects to his repertoire of landscapes and history painting. He was one of the first British artists to extensively depict the processes of the Industrial Revolution. He returned to London, working for the Science and Art Department until 1885. Label fixed to the inside front cover indicating that the book was awarded as a prize at the South Kensington School of Art in 1890 Hardback in good condition, the top of the pages appear deckled, though the other edges are clean. Fully bound brown leather with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout.